Organizing my TBR VI

I was inspired by Charlotte’s posts to try this. If you don’t follow Charlotte, I highly recommend you do! She shares a lot of queer lit and is half of the team over at Reads Rainbow (which you should ALSO follow).

I’ve tried several TBR memes before, but I like the idea of ranking books with a numerical system! This first post is just going to be playing around a bit. Charlotte rates books based on how motivated she is to read it (1-5) multiplied by how interested she is in the premise (1-5).

I plan to start by using a similar system: priority (1-5) + interest in blurb (1-5) + average friend rating on GR (1-5) / 3. I’ll check out the final result and make my decision from there. I’m not going to make any hard rules, but my guess is a score of 3+ is good enough to stay. Very high ratings will get put on my tbr asap shelf. If none of my friends have rated the book, then I’ll exclude the friends’ ratings and only divide by 2.

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• Queens of Geek
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.88.
  • Score: 2.96, remove.
  • I think this would’ve worked for me at one point, but I’m not sure I’ll end up getting to it anymore.
• The Stranger in the Woods
  • Priority, 4. Interest, 5. Friends’ Ratings, 3.6.
  • Score: 4.2, keep.
• Eliza and Her Monsters
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 4.23.
  • Score: 2.74, remove.
• The Polygamist’s Daughter
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 2.33.
  • Score: 3.11, keep (by the skin of its teeth).
• Wenjack
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 2.5, remove.

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• Universal Harvester
  • Priority, 4. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 3.71.
  • Score: 3.9, keep.
• Beloved
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4.5. Friends’ Ratings, 3.72.
  • Score: 3.74, keep.
• How to Make a Wish
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.27.
  • Score: 3.76, keep.
• The One Memory of Flora Banks
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.8.
  • Score: 2.93, remove.
• On Such a Full Sea
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 3.
  • Score: 2.33, remove.

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• Nasty Women
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 3.67, keep.
• Strange the Dreamer
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.32.
  • Score: 3.11, keep.
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.12.
  • Score: 3.71, keep.
• The Fact of a Body
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 4.38.
  • Score: 3.13, keep.
• Elsewhere
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 4.5.
  • Score: 2.83, remove.

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• Outlander
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.23.
  • Score: 3.74, keep.
• A Face Like Glass
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 2. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 2.67, remove.
• The Marsh King’s Daughter
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, 4.
  • Score: 3.67, keep.
• The Seafarer’s Kiss
  • Priority, 2. Interest, 3. Friends’ Ratings, 3.
  • Score: 2.67, remove.
• Papi: My Story
  • Priority, 3. Interest, 4. Friends’ Ratings, n/a.
  • Score: 3.5, keep.

TBR at Start of Series: 1282 (lolll help me)
TBR Today: 1416
TBR Now: 1408

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I doubled the amount of books I looked at, since I felt like this was going a bit slow. It worked, because I removed eight books today! That’s 40% of the books I looked at. I’m really excited that I’ve started doing this, since it’s clear there are so many books I’m no longer interested in that are bogging down my TBR. Let me know if any of you decide to try Charlotte’s reorganizing as well, I’d like to see how it works for others. 🙂

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